Maey ellen gross



No. 769,542. PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

' M. E, GROSS.

GARMENT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED {URI} 27, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 6, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

GARMENT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,542, dated September 6, 1904.

Application filed June 27, 1904. Serial No. 214,318. (No model.)

To all whmn it minty concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY ELLEN GRoss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the hook known as hooks and eyes I have produced an improvement, the object of which is to provide a more extended and better hold by the hook in the garment to prevent the hook from tearing out a piece of the garment at the fastened eyes of the hook. In the garment-hook now in use the fasteningeyes of the shank are so close together that the hook is liable to and often does pull out a piece of the dress, under the strain of a tightfitting dress, at the stitching, and to avoid this serious objection I provide a novel construction of the hook whereby its shank is formed with three eyes to increase the area of the stitching in the garment and. whereby such construction is rendered easy of manufacture.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my improvement, and in which Figure 1 shows the triple-eyed hook in perspective. Fig. 2 shows the outer side of the hook. Fig. 3 shows the under side. Fig. 4 is a side view.

From a single piece of wire the shank is formed of two sides or bars 1 and 2 and an intermediate tongue 3, the ends of the sides formed with the usual eyes 4 L for stitching the hook to the fabric. The side or bar 1 in forming the eye 4 is by a continuous coil caused to form an eye 5 between the eyes of the sides or bars at the end of the hook, and from this intermediate coil the end is extended between the sides and terminates in the tongue resides in the continuous coil forming the third eye, 5, by two successive turns or coils formed side by side at the return-bend of the side or bar 1, leaving the inner end of the tongue free. The forming of the two eyes side by side by successive coils continuous with one of said bars renders the operation easy in producing the triple-eyed hook and by the slightest increase in the length of the Wire.

An important feature in the construction of the hook is the spreading of the sides from the hook, thereby increasing the space between the eyes, giving greater area to the stitched part of the garment, nen'dering it more difiicult to pull out a piece of the garment, and giving the advantage of placing the third eye between the sides. It will also be noticed that in the operation of forming the third eye the coil crosses over the side and under the bend which forms the third eye, and this gives a greater spring freedom for the tongue.

A triple-eyed garment-hook formed by four parallel sides or bars, two of which are between'the other two and one of which forms the tongue, which at its outer end terminates in the third eye, is old in the art, and my claim, therefore, is directed to the new construction by which the triple-eyed hook is formed by two divergent sides or bars, a mediate tongue, and a pair of eyes formed by successive coils side by side at the end of the hook.

I claim A garment-hook consisting of side bars each terminating in an eye, a hook and a tongue, the eye of one of said side bars continued by a successive joining-coil to form athird eye between the side eyes, said side bars flaring from the hook and said third coil terminating at the end of the hook.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARY ELLEN GROSS. Witnesses:

A. E. H. JOHNSON, THOMAS HooD YEAGER. 

